The main aim of my visit to Melbourne was to see friends and eat good food and drink some lush wine before I start to live on rice, soy sauce, curry, tropical fruit and bottled water. Staying with my old school friend Amy held me in good stead. We started at Soul Mama in St Kilda with a familiar feast – one I had enjoyed 9 years ago on my last visit. The following day I searched high and low for the internet and ended up in the McD’s – now the home of wifi not just clean toilets! I enjoyed Pimms & Lemonade and some supermarket treats on the beach whilst a young North Eastern English couple bickered beside me….I don’t think their holiday was going so well, although it did make me all the more grateful I was flying solo! Friday night saw an Italian feast at another St Kilda restaurant with delicious food and wine at I Carusi II . It turns out the ex-pat Itai’s have mastered it in their southern hemisphere home. Eating was starting to become awesome on the big adv...